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Talos Dreams: World Premiere

"Talos Dreams" explores the line between made versus born in a musical work based on the real and imagined robots of ancient Greece. It’s inspired by the tale of Talos, the mythical robot that guarded Crete against invaders. The divide between human and not human, born vs. built, is a concept in artificial intelligence that’s not only recent, but in fact thousands of years old.

This virtual performance will feature a mix of live performance and music videos produced especially for this premiere. Talos Dreams is composed by Costas Dafnis and commissioned by the Greek Chamber Music Project with generous support from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty Grant. This performance is sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley Departments of Classics and Rhetoric.

Run time: 30 minutes
Q&A with the artists to follow

Learn more: TalosDreams.com

Apr 25, 2021 11:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)